Visiting the Kunitomo Gun Museum in Nagahama | POV Bicycle Touring Shiga and Fukui Japan Part 8

After reaching Nagahama, I'm very near the end of my first day. My route takes me around the hotel I booked for the night so I can visit the Kunitomo Gun Museum. This area has a rich history of skilled craftsman who provided matchlock firearms to ruling shogunates for 400 years. When the need for firearms declined, these craftsmen turned their skills with steel tubing to the very complicated process of creating bicycle frames. It was great fun to see examples of this work preserved centuries later. I highly recommend visiting if you're ever in Nagahama. On my way to the museum, I find a 7-Eleven conveniently located relatively near my hotel. I make a note to come back by and grab dinner later. This is the eighth in a series of videos showing my 3-day self-supported bicycle tour of Shiga and Fukui Japan by way of Lake Biwa. During this tour, I follow along Biwako up to Nagahama then make my way through the mountains to Tsuruga. From there I follow the western coast of Japan down to Obama, then cross back over the mountains through Kumagawa following along the southwest side of Biwako back to Seta. 3 Day self-supported bicycle tour of Shiga and Fukui Japan playlist    • Starting Out, Seta to Nagahama via Lake Bi...   These videos have minimal edits, no background music, and show the joys, frustrations, and mistakes I made along the way. In this series there are a lot of wrong turns, some difficult roads, a few close calls, occasional colorful language, and more than a few monotonous miles. If you want to know what it's like to ride in Japan when you don't know where you're going, can't read, and are completely dependent upon your gps bike computer, this is it. Without question, this was the greatest adventure I've ever had, and I can only hope to be able to do it again one day. Japan is beautiful, the Japanese people are amazing, and it may be the greatest place on earth to ride a bike. I'm working to post a new video each week, so please check back to see what happens next.